B999 crash in Aberdeenshire on 16 September 1989 at 01:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the B999 in Aberdeenshire at 01:10 on Saturday 16 September 1989. The 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Sep 1989
- Saturday, 01:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 57.22211, longitude -2.09769, in the AB23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Aberdeenshire
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1989928906009
- Council area
- Aberdeenshire
- Police force
- Grampian
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 999
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 47 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 16 February 2016.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B999 in Aberdeen City, 16 February 2016
47 m awayRef 2016921600186
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B999 in Aberdeen City, 12 February 1997
100 m awayRef 1997929700629
Serious
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 22 September 1986
100 m awayRef 1986928606189
Slight
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 20 August 1989
100 m awayRef 1989928905497
Serious
Car crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 20 September 1989
100 m awayRef 1989928906201
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B999 in Aberdeenshire, 22 March 1997
100 m awayRef 1997929701279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1989928906009 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Aberdeenshire road accident statistics for 1989.